1, reverse movement
When the left foot advances, the right shoulder and the right crotch are sent forward; when the right foot advances, the left shoulder and the left crotch are sent forward; when the left foot retreats, the right shoulder and the right crotch give way; when the right foot retreats, the left shoulder and the left crotch give way. In this way, the body and the dance form a reverse match, which is called the reverse movement.
2, lifting and lowering
All kinds of dance steps, there are changes in the rise and fall of the body, only the degree of lifting and lowering and different requirements. Generally speaking, the body must be slightly down at the start and slightly up at the step. When you bend your knees at the start and lift your heel after the step, there is a clear change of elevation.
Taking the waltz where the lifting and lowering skills are fully realized, the first beat is a knee bending and lowering of the body, the second beat is a rise in the flatness of the step, and the third beat is a heel lifting of the body in the parallel step, which rises to the highest point and then falls, thus forming a curve like the undulation of the waves.
3. Swinging movement
Swinging movement refers to the dancer's body in the forward and backward, as if swinging like a swing: when starting to move forward, just like a swing in front of the swing, there is a feeling of swinging from the bottom up; when moving backward, just like a swing in the back, there is a feeling of swinging back from the top down.
Expanded:
International Standard Cotillion different kinds of dance, its basic footwork combination in the combination of step speed is different. Generally divided into two categories.
One category is the average step speed category: for example, slow three steps, fast three steps, waltz, Vienna waltz, Nanjing small pull dance, Beijing Ping Si dance and so on. This type of dance is characterized by a step of the dance music accounted for a beat, of course, this step refers to the international standard ballroom dance music in the regular step. On the whole, the pace of the international standard ballroom dance steps is average.
A class of fast and slow steps: the basic step combination of this type of dance is made up of a fast step and a regular step or a combination of a regular step and a slow step; some dances are even made up of a fast step, a regular step, and a slow step.